Check In Systems vs Visitly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Check In Systems
This visitor management system uses an iPad to create a digital sign-in sheet for businesses. It logs visitors, patients, or customers with timestamps for accurate reporting and allows staff to acknowledge and check them out on their computers. It's ideal for improving customer service in various walk-in environments.
- Digital sign-in sheet on iPad
- Visitor log with timestamps
- Staff computer acknowledgement
- Accurate office traffic reporting
- Customer service improvement tool
- Multiple industry-specific products
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Using an Apple iPad, customers are greeted with a simple touch screen to sign in. Just like a paper sign in sheet, this app organizes a log of visitors, patients or customers. The information is then presented on your staff computers for acknowledgement and check out. Timestamps provide accurate documentation and reporting of office traffic. Check In Systems are designed to improve Customer Service for Medical offices, Retail walk in businesses, College Counselors and any customer service walk in office. Products include Medical Check In, Customer Check In, Probation Check In, VA Check In, DSS Checkin and Student Check In. This app requires a subscription to our Check In Software. The subscription includes database hosting, support and updates. Subscriptions may be purchased on our main websites and can be running in just minutes. You may test the software for your office using our demo system and your own iPad. Download the app and run it. Go to www.cqueue.com/login to see the backend where your sign ins appear on a web interface. Use "demo" for the login, pwd and system id.
Visitly
Streamline front desk operations with a digital sign-in system for visitors and employees. Capture information, digitally sign documents, and print badges instantly. Real-time host notifications and a web dashboard provide comprehensive visitor management.
- Digital visitor sign-in
- Document e-signatures
- Photo ID capture
- Real-time host notifications
- Instant badge printing
- Web-based admin dashboard
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Fast and Easy Tablet Sign In Use the Visitly iPad app at your front desk or lobby and provide a fast and easy way for your visitors, guest and employees to fill in their information, digitally sign documents and capture their photo ID. Your visitors or employees can sign in and sign out within a few seconds. Configure the look and feel, colors, and logo based on your brand Web Dashboard Online web based application for your administrators and front desk staff to view all visitors, guests and/or employees signing in and out of your location. Administrators can manage your sites, locations, devices and other settings in an easy to use navigation and UI. Rich dashboards provides key metrics such as busiest times of the day and various other information for you to plan accordingly. Realtime Host Notifications With Visitly you can integrate automated real time notification to your Hosts based on your preferred communication method. Use out of the box integrations with Email,Slack, and/or Webex Teams for real time notifications to your hosts and other recipients on sign in and sign out. Instant Badge Printing Print a visitor badge instantly on any approved wireless thermal printer on visitors’ sign in. Easily configure options for printing badges on the web portal and customize based on your needs
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Visitly at 5.0 against Check In Systems's 3.0. Visitly also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). Check In Systems's advantage is iOS requirement (9.1 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Visitly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Check In Systems's written reviews are positive against 50% of Visitly's.
Check In Systems ships an update every 6 months, Visitly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Check In Systems | Visitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Check In Systems Inc | Visitly LLC |
Customer experience
Check In Systems
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In-app purchases
Check In Systems
No in-app purchases
Visitly
No in-app purchases
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